Re: [PANIC] ohci1394 & copy large files

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 00:13, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Marcel Lanz wrote:
> > Since 2.6.4 and still in 2.6.5 I get regurarly a Kernel panic if I try
> > to backup large files (10-35GB) to an external attached disc (200GB/JFS) via ieee1394/sbp2.
> > 
> > Has anyone similar problems ?
> 
> Known issue, fixed in our repo. I still need to sync with Linus once I
> iron one more issue and merge some more patches.

Hi Ben !

I don't want to be too critical or harsh or whatever, but why don't you
just send such fixes right upstream instead of stacking patches for a
while in your repo ? From my experience, such "batching" of patches is
the _wrong_ thing to do, and typically, there is a major useability
issue with sbp2 that could have been "right" in 2.6.5 final and will not
be (so we'll have to wait what ? 1 or 2 monthes more now to have a
release kernel with a reliable sbp2)

Ben.